AuthorJeffEyesRimmer Tis the season for some festive football fun! Christmas time brings a tonne of football at us in a short period of time and we love it and what team has more cheer than any other this time of year? Well it’s got to be FC Santa Claus! FC Santa Claus is a football club from Rovaniemi in Finland. The club was formed in 1993 following the amalgamation of Rovaniemen Reipas and Rovaniemen Lappi football clubs. The club plays in the modest Keskuskenttä stadium, a 4000 seater stadium which can be covered and they play just 6 miles from the Arctic Circle in Lapland. The stadium has also been through the wars, literally, in 2009 while replacing the turf for an artificial pitch with undersoil heating a World War II bomb was unearthed. Hardly festive but thankfully the bomb was safely removed.
And of course they play in red and white. The club play in the Kakkonen league, the third tier of the Finnish football league pyramid. The league structure is a little different to regular seasons like in mainland Europe. The Kakkonen is divided into three groups (A-C) consisting of 12 teams in each group. Each club plays each other within its group twice and the winners and second place teams from each group go onto a new group to determine who gets promoted to the second tier (Ykkonen). The bottom teams in each group are relegated to the Kolmonen league (4th tier). The 2015 season saw the club come 7th in the northern group and so a mixed season really. They have spent the majority of their time in the Kakonen league, 12 seasons in total but have been relegated to the Kolmonen league too and have spent 10 seasons in the fourth tier. Although they have never been in the top divisions the club has won a cup competition; the Midnattsolscupen (Midnight Sun Cup). The Midnight Sun Cup is a football tournament which is played annually in July in the Tornedalen (Norrbotten County) in northern Sweden. Most of the matches are played during the late evening and as the name suggests at midnight, taking full advantage of the long daylight hours. Brilliantly FC Santa won the cup only a year after they formed, winning it in 1994. It is played between teams from Sweden, Norway and Finland but more recently teams from Russia have entered, such as Spartak Moscow and Stolitsa Moskva. The team are also currently doing various Christmas challenges so be sure to check them out on Twitter. The Day 14 one looks freezing cold. Merry Christmas fellow outcasts! Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/FC_Santa_Claus.png |
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